A black and white contact print, showing a Thornycroft lorry decorated with flags precessing outside the Thornycroft factory. A number of women dressed in factory uniforms are standing in the back of the lorry with a factory machine on the back. Taken outside the Thornycroft factory, Worting Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire. Taken on Saturday 16th November 1918.
Following armistice a Grand Armistice Carnival Procession took place through the streets of Basingstoke on Saturday the 16th November. This was organised by Thornycroft staff with other local firms.
The procession stretched for almost a mile and included around 60 floats, many of them prepared by the Thornycroft staff. It travelled from the Thornycroft works along Worting Road, Queen’s Road, Lower Brook Street, Essex Road, Sarum Hill, Winchester Street, Wote Street, Brook Street, Church Street, Cross Street, New Street, Victoria Street, Council Road, Fairfields Road, Hackwood Road and London Street.
This photograph is from an album of 37 photographs all taken from outside the Thornycroft Worting Road factory.
